Blank book



(No Model.)

G. H. OGDEN.

BLANK BOOK.

No. 467,892. Patented Jan. 26, 1892.

Inf/waar 5, /wg @4W Jar'ngy UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE Il. OGDEN, OF CLEVELAND, OHIO.

B LA N K B O O K.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 467,892, dated January26, 1892.

Application filed J une 8, 1891. Serial No. 395,452. (No specimens.)

To all whom it may concern,.-

Be it known that I, GEORGE II. OGDEN, a citizen of the United States,and a resident of Cleveland, in the county of Cuyahoga, State of Ohio,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Binding for BlankBooks, of which I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, andexact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art towhich it appertains to make and use the saine.

My invention relates to improvements in the construction of blank booksof that class constructed to permit the pages to lie dat when the bookis opened. A My invention consists in the arrangement and combination ofthe various parts and details of construction, as hereinafter described,shown in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out inthe claim.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure l is a perspective of a ledgerbound in my improved manner. Fig. 2 is a detail View, with cover andback removed, of a portion of the book. Fig. 3 represents one of thesections.

A in the figures represents a series of four leaves sewed, as shown,together and to a cord B, which traverses the "line of fold at the back.These stitches are shown quite close together; but the length of thestitches can be varied to suit thethicknessand strength of the paper.After sewing each series together bands of parchment, as C, are sewed toeach cord in the manner shown, so as to attach the several seriesstrongly together by the cords. In this invention, however, the leavesor series of leaves being slightly raised upon the cordsB above thebacking, the book when opened will lie entirely fiat, each leaf swingingfreely upon its cord, as shown distinctly in Fig. l.

The advantages of the device are obvious, since when laid open the bookwill be aslevel as a table and writing or figures can be distinctly madeon any part of the pages. It is deemed important that the cords beattached directly to the folds of the sections, whereby a iiap piece isdispensed with, and that the several cords be unattached when arrangedin the book, but each cord attached to the strips C, whereby greaterfreedom of movement is provided than if the cords were all stitched orconnected together, and the cords are free to move or roll one uponanother as the book is opened. The leaf-sections are preferably formedof four leaves as being more pliant for use.

I am aware that books for this purpose have been invented in which theleaves were pasted to strips of cloth, and also that cords have beenpasted within the leaves, but believe myself to be the first to utilizea strong and dense cord for this purpose and to accomplish mostefficiently this result.

NV hat I claim, therefore, as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

The herein-described blank book, consisting of a series ofleaf-sections, a cord stitched directly to each section, the sectionsbeing bound in book form with the cord of each section unattached to thecords of the other sections, and binding-strips attached to the severalcords, substantially as shown and described.

GEORGE H. OGDEN.

YVitneSSes:

WM. M. MONROE, WM. S. GILKEY.

